Does anyone know what the nicknames were for LEM and service modules for each Apollo mission? I know Apollo 8 did not have a LEM, but maybe there still was a nickkname?
Apollo 10 had Charlie Brown and Snoopy (which was which?)
Apollo 11 had the Eagle and ?
Apollo 13 had Odyssey and Aquarius
Apollo 9 CM was “Gumdrop”. LM was “Spider”.
Apollo 10 CM was “Charlie Brown”. LM was “Snoopy”.
Apollo 11 CM was “Columbia”. LM was “Eagle”.
Apollo 12 CM was “Yankee Clipper”. LM was “Intrepid”. (All Navy crew.)
Apollo 13 CM was “Aquarius”. LM was “Odyssey”. (I think.)
Apollo 14 CM was “Kitty Hawk”. LM was “Antares”.
Apollo 15 was “Endeavor” and “Falcon”. (Don’t know which was which.)
Apollo 16 CM was “Casper”. LM was “Orion”.
Apollo 17 CM was “America”. LM was “Challenger”.
Johnny L.A., thanks! But, do you have any info on Apollo 18? (It was 19 and 20 which were scratched.)
Apollo 9: command module was “Gumdrop”, lunar module was “Spider”
Apollo 10: CM was “Charlie Brown”, LM was “Snoopy”
Apollo 11: CM was “Columbia”, LM was “Eagle” (as in “…has landed”).
Apollo 12: CM was “Yankee Clipper”, LM was “Intrepid”
Apollo 13: CM was “Odyssey”, LM was “Aquarius”
Apollo 14: CM was “Kitty Hawk”, LM was “Antares”
Apollo 15: CM was “Endeavour”, LM was “Falcon”
Apollo 16: CM was “Casper”, LM was “Orion”
Apollo 17: CM was “America”, LM was “Challenger”
Apollos 1, 7 and 8 did not name their spacecraft.
Apollo 8 did not carry a LM, but did carry the equivalent weight in ballast, in order to simulate the affects during launch.
Jinx–Apollo 18 was used to launch our part of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Guy Propski beat me to it. Apollo 1, 7 and 8 did not have nicknames AFIAK.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that NASA didn’t want nicknames after Gus Grissom named his Gemini ship “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”. I think they thought it was in poor taste. (Personally, I like it.)
Apollo 18 wasn’t actually called that. As guy points out, it was the “Apollo-Soyuz Mission”. (BTW: I have a model of that. :))